The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-17

OF deceiving, extorting, cheating and terribly
ing her into the payment of large sums of
money, running from 500 to 1900 a at
time. Fifth, the said defendants, for the
purpose of further cheating and defrauding
your oratrix, procured and furnished largo
brass bugs and had them placed on various
parts of your oratrix's residence, under the
pretense that they were necessary to remove
the said spells, for which she has been
defrauded out of $40 for each of the said
bugs. Also large plates with numerous
devices and hierogvlphics inscribed upon
them were procured and furnished by the
said defendants, and falsely and fraudulent
lly represented as coming from far-off is
land at a great expense for the purpose of
teaching the said Bridget Nichols the art of
banishing spells and particularly to keep
the spees from the friends and relatives of
your oratrix, whereby she has been de
frauded and cheated by the said defendants
out of sums of money running from 500 TO
5000 to remove the spells from each of her
friends and relatives then mentioned, and
81, 200 each for the said Bridget Z. Nichols
and Alice Mcguire, to remove the spells
from them. Sixth, that the said DIR. Hall,
through the collision and connivance of the
said defendants, together with colored peo-
pie unknown to your oratriX, would call
upon her during the late hours of night,
wherein the said Dr. Hall, while standing
at her bedside, would rub her arms and
utter some unintelligible sounds and mean
tations, and declare that devils were leaving
her one by one.
REMOVING THE SPELLS
THAT during each of those visits the said
defendants would demand, exact and extort
from your oratrix various sums of money
by falsely and fradulently representing that
the paymant of such sums was necessary to
drive away the spells. Seventh, that the
money so falsely, unawfully and fraudu-
lently obtained and extorted from your ora
trix by the said Bridget Nichols has been
laid out and expended for the purchase of
certain real estate herein described; that
the title thereto is in her own
name and described as follows: All
that certain lot or piece of ground, with the
messuage or tenement thereon erected, sit
uate on the north corner of Bringhurst and
Wakefield streets in Germantown, in the
Twenty second ward of the city of Phila-
delphia; thence extending along the north
west side of said Bringhurst street north
f1fty-two degrees, east sixty seven feet three
inches to a corner; thence along the south
western side OF an alley two feet six inches
wide; thence north fofty-eight degrees
west sixteen feet two and quarter inches
to a corner; thence south forty-one de
grees twenty four minutes, west sixty-seven
feet and four inches to the northeasterly
side along Wakefield street; thence
along the same south forty degrees
thirty-six minutes, east fifteen feet six inch
es to the place of beginning, together with
the free use, right, liberty and privilege of
the said two feet SIX inches wide alley; that
your oratrix is informed and believes that
the said Bridget E. Nichols is about making
sale and disposing of the said premises for
the purpose of defrauding your oratrix."
The court is therefore asked that all the
money extorted from the plaintiff be ac-
counted for and paid back; that if Bridget
E. Nichols has encountered or in any way
disposed of the real estate the proceeds of
the sale shall be paid to plaintiff, and Bird
get E. Nichols be restrained from selling,
transferring. disposing or encumbering in
any way the real estate and that said prem
lseS be held in trust for the plaintiff.